African Dance Summary Presentation..
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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African Dance- Sub-Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm.
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What Is Traditional African Dance?
Traditional African dance is an essential element of Africa’s cultural heritage, providing a vital expression of the region's philosophy, and the living memory of its cultural wealth and its evolution over the centuries.
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Ritual Dance
The most ancient African dance there is. Ritual dances are initiated by the informed and the elders. They are usually religious in nature and are designated for specific occasions that expedite and facilitate the most powerful expression of African people.
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Religion Importance.
In Ritual Dancing, the people cannot perform it unless they have a big understanding of their African religion and have practiced it. Traditional African Religions are not exclusive. Individuals frequently participate in several distinctive forms of worship, and they are not perceived as conflicting in any way-rather they are considered cumulative means of achieving the same result. which is improved quality of life
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Ancestor Worship:
Ancestor worship is very normal in Africa and is also an important part of religious practice. Among people who worship ancestors hundreds of years after their death, reverence for ages takes a mystical quality as though the living were slowly become gods.
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"Ritual dances to connect to the divine"
Many African dances are the means by which individuals relate to ancestors and other divinities. What ever the motivation of the dance, it combines the expression of human feeling with the higher aspirations of man to communicate with the cosmos.
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Ceremonial Dance:
A place where African Americans gather to celebrate. It expresses the life of the community more than the mood of an individual or a couple. In villages throughout the continent, the sound and the rhythm of the drum express the mood of the people. The drum is the sign of life; its beat is the heartbeat of the community.
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Griotic Dance:These traditions and stories are kept in the form of music and dance, containing elements of history or metaphorical statements that carry and pass on the culture of the people through the generations. Griotic dance not only represent historical documents, but they are ritual dramas and dances. They tell stories of historical events.
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Communal Dances:
It expresses the life of the community more than the mood of an individual or a couple. In villages throughout the continent, the sound and the rhythm of the drum express the mood of the people. The drum is the sign of life; its beat is the heartbeat of the community. Such is the power of the drum to evoke emotions, to touch the souls of those who hear its rhythms.
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Dance Formations-
The basic formation of African dance is in lines and circles; dances are performed by lines or circles of dancers. There is supernatural power in the circle, the curved, and the round. “Let the circle be unbroken” is a popular creed throughout African.
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Movement!
By raising ordinary gestures to the level of art, these dances show the grace and rhythm of daily activities.The movements of the dance mimic battlefield tactics, such as stabbing with the end of the horsetail. This dance consists of phrases of movements. A phrase consists of a “turn,” which occurs in every phrase, and then a different ending movement.
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Polyrhythm:
African dance utilizes the concepts of polyrhythm, the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms, and total body articulation.
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